syrian rebels are threatening to execute a kidnapped ukrainian journalist if a round sum isn't paid reportedly saying that russian and ukrainian citizens should not be allowed to leave syria alive. britain says it how's that evidence of russia's involvement in the death of former spy alexander litvinenko after six years of failing to provide any tangible proof. debt ridden greece gets its latest installment of bailout funds needed to keep the economy bloat in exchange for a debt buyback scheme which some see as counterproductive. and the u.n. atomic watchdog resumes talks with iran we look at why many iranians consider applying nuclear energy as not just a matter of necessity but of national pride. world

news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of well ukrainian journalists kidnapped by syrian rebels are facing execution on thursday this unless a fifteen million dollar ransom is paid on car cochon no one has been working in syria during the conflict helping international news outlets including our t.v. now the world's main groups defending the press have strongly condemned the targeting of reporters a middle east correspondent paula sleeker is following those developments. the journalist and coach never was taken hostage in october and no holmes the free syrian army has held her for nearly two months they've accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has a kid into you tube videos that were released earlier by the free syrian army and

in one of those she appealed to the embassies ukraine and russia as well as to the syrian government to meet the demands of the kidnappers it's very difficult to say whether in fact these demands will in fact be made she read a text in those videos in arabic in which admitted to having participated in the fighting and having worked as a military interpreter with syrian and russian officers but in two years down the authenticity of these videos believing that they were made while she was under do wrists now the ukrainian foreign ministry has also released a statement released last month saying that officials were negotiating for her beliefs but they did not offer through the details some syrian rebels are reportedly threatening to make russian and ukrainian citizens in syria their target and prey saying that they shouldn't be allowed to leave the country alive meanwhile meanwhile moscow is warning that the opposition may win the conflict but at an honest sceptical price artie's aleksei or chef skee has the details the russian

foreign ministry would not exclude the possibility of the syrian opposition forces being victorious in the military conflict in this country that is according to the deputy foreign minister minister but he stressed once again at what price a completely unacceptable for supporting to the russian foreign ministry this victory may come he said that for now it has been claimed that sixty percent of syrian territory is being controlled by the pro position forces wells forty percent of the territory remaining under the governmental control and if the opposition will be willing to push further this may lead to more casualties with forty thousand people about forty thousand people already killed the death toll could rise to hundreds of thousands of people and this is something russia finds us completely on except. believing that this brice is way too high this statement comes shortly after a conference in morocco finished with around one hundred countries pledging their support to the syrian opposition the same tone of violence is still taking place in

the country with several terrorist attacks rocking damascus and the neighboring outskirts of damascus in the last forty eight hours all right let's speak now to dr ali mohamad he's the editor in chief of the syria tribune online magazine thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us now syria has been called the deadliest conflict for journalists there's been reports of more than a dozen reporters being held by the syrian government and lots of reports of also the rebels now kidnapping and holding journalists hostage the u.s. and the new and also press groups have called for the release of this ukrainian reporter how likely do you think the rebels are to heed that call. unfortunately it does not look very likely to be the first of all the ripples as we see it several times they don't have. any very clear lines of. the four horses in fifty so it's very hard to plan for this particular group if we're going

to have some. of the waste of lives we're still citizens or an american citizen particularly bold enough to. ask local folks to be sure to put some pressure to release the hostages it's a very sad incident and it's a shame on. those who kidnapped the. journalist and those who can help release her people well it certainly is a shame and of course the situation on the ground seems to be a school shooting with atrocities committed by both the government as well as the rebels but with the u.s. now officially recognizing the rebels who are backing them we have seen various crimes for example abducting journalists or and i do want to warn you the video we're about to show show is quite graphic this tape. purportedly showing a child executing someone who's claimed to be

a government supporter and of course that video is not verified but the bigger picture question here is shouldn't incidents like this raise some questions or concerns about backing the opposition they should definitely but unfortunately the way this. works is going to have seemed to be to leave little messages to go to google groups approving it will be will escape through. the consequences or nobody will be targeting them as terrorists. looks like we've lost a guest there we're going to try to get that interview back for you that was dr ali mohamed the editor in chief of the syria tribune online magazine. well the death of former russian spy alexander litvinenko who was poisoned in london six years ago is again in the spotlight a testimony at a preliminary hearing into the incident suggest that living go was a paid british intelligence agent and that the russian state was involved in as

murder charges or spencer's in london and is following those developments for us this is not just about the sort of salacious details of spying on the world there is there are wider implications of this and of course it has been the major stumbling block in u.k. russian relations for the last six years since it happened and it comes up every time there's any kind of problem in the relationship between russia and the u.k. and of course the main problem at the moment is syria and how much involvement the international community could have in syria but we hearing that the inquest lawyer has said that the u.k. government has material evidence that the russian state is guilty but interesting really under the law the english courts can't pass judgment on the lawfulness of the behavior of another state so that's an interesting point which i'm sure will come up again when the inquest is held but of course we've seen no details of this evidence which is interesting lead u.k.

government has kept its evidence very close to its chest meanwhile there is convincing evidence on the other side of course. u.k. police's main suspects. because poisoning he recently passed a lie detector test administered by british experts in which he was specifically asked whether he has had any involvement in his death he said no the lie detector test was passed by him also because of the cold on t.v. that he didn't suspect the kremlin or andrey lugovoy of having any involvement in his son's murder this inquest we're expecting it to take place next year and it's an inquest in which there will be huge media attention from all over the world the u.n. atomic experts are back in iran to try. to make headway over tensions surrounding a controversial nuclear program is the first visit since talks had a deadlock in august and the i.a.e.a. team is hoping to get some access to some of the sites suspected of carrying out nuclear activities but they're not likely to get inside one area that's the parchin

military facility to iran insists that it is a non nuclear site saying that inspectors have no right to access it iran has denied that its uranium enrichment military has military aims but despite the lack of evidence pro proving otherwise israel has repeatedly threatened military action if the policy fails as artie's only if a notional reports of mutual distrust between iran and the international community has already claimed victims. three decades of pride followed by three years of morning when i met her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed he went on to become one of iran's leading nuclear scientists and to it all ended one sunny morning in january two thousand and ten. left to work and then i heard a terrible explosion i rushed to see what happened he was lying like this.

i called my screwed my screwed. my ass i thought he was just scared but then i turned to him there was no face just blood in tissues he was the first victim in a gruesome trend associated with his work since two thousand and ten at least three other nuclear scientists have been murdered in iran to assume. they were working hard so their country didn't need to beg other nations for a no host we have the right to acquire is this knowledge and feel independent. women soon as husband began embarking on his nuclear career it was not a life threatening occupation in the seventy's western countries were. we get to help iran develop its own nuclear program supplying into with technology with no strings attached that changed when the iranian regime deed was earlier seen as inalienable right became its biggest liability iran. would be emboldened in its

pursuit of nuclear weapons billions of dollars have been pumped into the industry before the revolution at the time of the shah why should they give up now just because western powers say so while iran's nuclear program is now a target of western political discourse there is only suspicion and no internationally recognized evidence that the country's moving towards build an atomic weapon iranian officials believe all this tension is fabricated with the sole purpose to demonize them in the eyes of international community if you have knife in your kitchen and some of the recent concert contour. or. benjamins. maybe you want to use it to some. this is very. george king are you via the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't be trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who want

a total change of leadership see should be non-negotiable for the country. would look pretty sure. you're on your back. but if you did you. kind of drago if you're on. the. phone right. now. which is pretty much. the blocks that killed him and sirius has been to seduce shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its rights to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west says only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. nationality from

tehran. tehran university professor saeed one khalid marandi had told me earlier that the assassinations of nuclear scientists is partly to blame for iran's reluctance to get inspectors access to the parchin site. but iranians don't believe that the international atomic energy agency really has any fear about the party in sight and that it is basically american pressure that forces the agency to take such steps because it's very western oriented organization it's not a democratic body most countries in the world meaning the nonaligned movement in fact supported iran's position. but the reason why the iranians have not allowed them to enter is because they've already done so twice before is a military complex the iranians have a military industry now if. in the past when iran

information be passed them on to western countries and eventual we have iranian scientists assassinated because of this information if they've done that in the past why should the iranians trust them to a not pass on this information to the united states. defense capabilities and b. what is the end game. coming out the russian president lashes out at the american presence is down at following a u.s. decision to sanction russian officials alleged rights violations in a high profile corruption case. the city california police force was to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit during

a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems this is facing waves of gang violence. drug trafficking but with all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back out into the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police just really only have one. solution offer a given situation go home lock your doors and load your gun and you know what actually that's not that bad of a proposition america has always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chief's honesty but i know the world we live in and i have a feeling that the second some homeowner shoots a guy who jumps over his fence at night that homeowners going to go to jail for life you can't expect that a nineteenth century attitude towards crime will be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists can sue you because they slipped on your slippery kitchen floor if you want people to be able to defend themselves that's great but you have to allow them the legal liberty to do so or else the criminals will just take over but that's just my opinion.

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welcome back you're watching our team the euro zone's biggest banks may soon come under direct policing from brussels it's a move which could get final approval by the e.u. leaders later on thursday it's a key step towards a fully fledged banking union on the continent with national powers slowly being concentrated into a single authority the deal was a matter of concern in britain where many had fear that it could lead to its isolation but under conditions agreed to by finance ministers thursday in london as well as other non eurozone members will have influence over the decision making process well for more on this i'm joined now for analysis by stephen the old city spokesman for the u.k. independence party sir thanks for taking the time to speak with us i want to begin by pointing out i'm in britain has one of these safeguards for the city so why is the u.k. so desperate to be involved in the eurozone decision making in your view. good

evening lou thank you the key decision making for david cameron and those who support the greater banking union is that they believe that the european union's only asset is that of the single market this supposed great market five hundred fifty million people where we can trade freely between each country without problems i don't see it that way myself i think the single market actually has its own problems but i believe that's the key reason why they're supporting the banking union and maintaining the european union and what are those problems in your view well firstly the we were in britain was sold the idea when we had our referendum that we were having a common market and our common market is where we can trade between countries without a huge amount of regulation the big problem with the single market is that it effectively taxes the consumer products and it taxes the taxpayers of european

countries because the european commission creates enormous regulations right down to the smallest my new shit on how trade occurs and we estimate or of experts have estimated that in britain it costs us one hundred ten billion pounds a year in lost revenue caused by this regulation that's certainly a large sum but do you feel that perhaps london is afraid of losing its influence on the continent to countries like germany and france get a bit behind the push. i do agree that there is a certain code of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that no longer going to be at the central table of european joining the late night events in the flash cars and the hotels that they get the decision making the real buzz of being there but there are those like me that actually know a party that believes that being outside of this particular cuba would actually influence great great britain's influence would actually rise and we'd be able to

trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations so just to make sure i understand you're saying the economic independence so what in fact be much better for britain because you would be freed out of the regulations that we're saying yes and actually it shows the britain's been a great entrepreneurial business country where we trade globally and at the moment you can see that even from the government's own statistics they show that recently trade with the rest of the world has risen dramatically whilst our trade with europe has actually fallen and that's not surprising to ourselves because we see that the rest of the world will resent the east in asia or looking at south america or indeed the middle east and then there's going to be a great push in africa there are countries with rising populations and rising middle class that demand products and we have expertise that could and should be used trading with them and mr wolf of course you're not alone in your over a perspective a skepticism is certainly on the rise within the u.k.

and i want to pull up a graph that we have for our viewers here which should show here where this we're looking at right now is a graph that showing that more and more people would vote for an exit if there were a referendum like this is data from the mori opinion poll now how does this growing anti e.u. sentiment in your view sit with for example prime minister cameron's desire to be in the union and to be actively involved in the decision making process. well he's isolated he's isolated themselves from the general opinion of the british people and he's isolating themselves from a large amount of m.p.'s within his own political party he's stuck with a coalition where the liberal democrats are huge believers in the european project . and they they themselves. they themselves don't like to be told by the british people of what they know is the right answer in the throes the british people is that we can see that the change in the global economy means that

we've got to trade with the rest of the world and we shouldn't be isolated we've one small particular state and he's and he's a real problems real problems and a point of view that seems to be becoming pardon me much more popular within the u.k. thank you so much that was stephen walt steve spokesperson for the u.k. my pleasure pendants party thank you sir. here's own finance ministers have a rubber stamp the latest installment of the bailout funds for debt ridden red in greece the money had been withheld for months and was dependent on athens buying back some of its debt before getting the vital cash injection that it needed but actually spare all of our reports the deal might not be as good as it appears for the eurozone. greece has given its financial backers something of an early christmas present by buying back a chunk of its debt from them however when they take the wrapping paper off but if they don't find it's a little less which they've asked for as part of a program to buy back scheme which saw athens buy back its own problems at around

thirty four percent of their original value the international monetary fund how to expected greece to be able to get its debt situation down to one hundred and twenty four percent overall economic output by twenty twenty that really does not seem likely right now this is cause the i.m.f. to say well we won't be lending any more money to any countries that can't pay back their debts however there is a dangerous precedent with this in terms of greece being able to return the money of course private investors private creditors see greece well a lot of banks and a lot of insurance companies have already had to take that hates it it may swell there's no way we're going to get this cash but for greece but that is subsidy that the i.m.f. certainly are not willing to accept right now for the next hour max kaiser will reveal how banks are getting away with dodgy dealings take a look. and just b.c.

to pay one point nine two billion dollars fine to settle charges over laundering state and federal authorities decided against indicting and just piecing in a money laundering case over concerns that criminal charges could jeopardize one of the world's largest banks and ultimately destabilize the global financial system too big. too big to jail this government condones crime and they wonder why the mavericks on fire because they will murder not fire because they've got the contract for the lighter fluid company. russia's president has hit out at america's recent sanctions on russian officials washington lawmakers accused several russian officials of being involved in the prison death of lawyer sergey magnitsky referring to the moves as absurd about him or putin also highlighted america's prison track record.

but frankly speaking i don't understand why our american colleagues are doing this most likely it's internal political intrigue will look at the foreign ministry has already called it the theater of the absurd that's precisely what it is which is sort of game of meets his death was a tragedy but there's nobody dying in u.s. prisons and maybe even in greater numbers going up there because for eight years they have failed to shotgun town about down where people are kept without due process and the wearing shackles like in medieval times people who open secret prisons have legalized torture during investigations are now pointing out drawbacks . president putin also said that russia is yet to complete in its investigation into madness his death has promised to retaliate against the congress in america by barring americans that it accuses of human rights abuses. tragedy strikes in russia southwest there are dead after a building collapsed on

a construction site some people are still trapped to report shortly and. also coming up find out why even though more britons are in the work joy over the drop in jobless numbers are going to be short lived. right will business now with katie and russian shoppers are appending to europe my own days yet two point four billion euro spending which is helping out european markets at the moment the retail sector also now more than japan but still less than china well i'm sure shops in the in europe aren't complaining about this trend exactly they're saying yes please come last just spend spend much get it going to last well coming out of the business both and also the bike all right will stay with us. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian and the blink of an.

anthropologist in those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to. a small town just outside. many. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia . filled with cabbage and making sure you can have many as a starter main dish. although it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if

you decide to participate. when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by transport. and when. it's inhabited by siberian a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians. and this. israel siberia maybe not the stuff of brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these years siberia still not quite like anywhere else.